It Takes a Village - Symposium about artists, motherhood and community by AtelierStroud published on 2017-05-03T10:46:22Z It Takes a Village - Symposium about artists, motherhood and community A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM at ATELIER, STROUD presented by WAAS (http://thewaas.org/) Sunday 23 April 2017 (10am-5pm) part of sva Resound Radio (http://www.sitefestival.org.uk/resoundradio2017) Sharon Louden in an interview with Hyperallergic said ‘it takes a village for an artist to really sustain their creative practice’. This resonates with the perhaps more widely recognised notion that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. At this symposium we will present, explore and discuss a range of models for sustaining mother-artists and explore how ‘the village’ can facilitate the role of the woman who seeks to sustain both an art career and children. We hope that non-mothers, and non-artists, will benefit from exploring these models as well as artist-mothers, and we will draw on models from education, culture, and experimental arts practices. Genre News & Politics
